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Headword:
Anepopteuton
Adler number: alpha,2303
Translated headword: not-fully-initiated
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [term that means] not being admitted to the grade of
epoptes [in the Eleusinian Mysteries]; so
Hyperides [sc. uses the word].[1] What admission to the grade of
epoptes means,
Philochorus shows when he says: "he is wronging all the mystic things and all the epoptic things". And elsewhere: "so for
Demetrius something special and unique happened: becoming a semi-initiate [
mystes] at the same time as a full-initiate [
epoptes] and side-stepping the traditional times of the rite".[2]
Anepopteuton: to mê epopteuon: houtôs Huperidês. to de Epopteusai dêloi Philochoros legôn: adikei panta ta te mustika kai ta epoptika. kai palin: Dêmêtriôi men oun idion ti gegone para tous allous, to monon muêthênai te hama kai epopteusai kai tous patrious chronous tês teletês metakinêthênai.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., where the headword is nominative case, not the Suda's accusative.
[1]
Hyperides fr. 174 Jensen (from the lost speech
Against Phryne).
[2]
Philochorus FGrH 328 F69b and 70b. The '
Demetrius' in question is the early-Hellenistic king
Demetrius Poliorcetes, for whom the usual rules were waived, so making possible his initiation to all the degrees on the same day (and without the normal preparations).
G.E. Mylonas, Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries (Princeton 1961)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 October 2000@08:10:24.
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